At 8:52 -0700 10/5/01, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>At 08:41 AM 10/5/2001 , Anthony Quinn wrote:
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I've attempted to research accessibility guidelines and support on the Mac.
>>I found this link to a very general article which is really all about 508
>>and web accessibility http://developer.apple.com/internet/_html/access.html
>>
>>Also, I tried to find information in the Apple Developer site (I signed up)
>>and there's noting in there. If someone was designing an interface for the
>>Mac, where would they go for specifics on making it accessible?
>>
>>Or is there any support for accessibility in the Mac OS at all?
>
>My understanding is that Mac accessibility is quite limited.
Joe Clark wrote about Mac accessibility in TidBits a while back:
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06311
Universal Access and OSX:
http://www.apple.com/disability/
In the area of web accessibility, I would note that IE5.x for Mac
allows easy one-click resizing of ALL text, regardless of what units
the web author has used to specify his font sizes (we're still
waiting for this feature in IE-Windows). And text-to-speech has been
built into the Mac OS for a long while now (yes, I know its
limitations).
David Pogue, a Macworld columnist who has repetitive-motion disorder
and relies on voice commands to work on his Mac, wrote an article
about voice recognition and device-independent input a couple of
years ago -- I'll try to find the reference.
Jo Miller
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